The luncheon did not mention the EPA’s role in the Gold King Mine disaster which dumped 880,000 pounds of dangerous metals, such as lead and arsenic, into the waters of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah as well as the local Navajo Nation.

This is especially interesting because in August shortly after the Gold King spill, the NWF claimed “[t]he EPA owes the public answers, including the short and long term impacts of the spill, how it happened, and what it’s going to take to make it right.”

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